Category: culture

This is a guest post by my friend Sam Walter. His eyes for the world and for life are different than most men in their twenties. He brings it. He loves life. His passion shakes things. And, he has a great beard. Check out his blogs here. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Someone once said that beauty is in the … Continue reading What is Beauty, Anyway?

As I walk down the streets of Swaziland, there is an obvious absence of father’s. There are babies everywhere I look. Infants are being taken care of by three year olds. Teenage boys living on the street, with no father figure. Twelve year old girls pregnant… abandoned. There is an oppression that I can hardly … Continue reading A Not So Happy Father’s Day

By Jeff Goins, Editor In 1998, Billy Graham delivered this fascinating and compelling TED Talk about technology and faith. This is not the first technological revolution, Graham says. Technology has helped and aided humanity in many ways, but it will never be able to solve some of humanity’s greatest moral dilemmas: particularly, the problems of … Continue reading Billy Graham on the Limits of Technology

By Zach Hunter Christmas time. Every year, for a short period of time, our inner child is given permission to come out of their room. This time of year, the lights are brighter, and the fragrances call up memories deeply imprinted in our hearts. This time of year, our yards are Hallmark cards, and our … Continue reading Getting Back the Wonder of Christmas (and Life)

By Jeff Goins, Editor Co-author of UnChristian Gabe Lyons has a new book called The Next Christians. Publishers Weekly describes the book in the following: [Lyons’] …newest book aims to “restore” U.S. evangelicalism by elevating a generation of leaders marked by six traits suitable for a postmodern, pluralistic, post-Christian America. Evangelicals will need to be … Continue reading The Next Christians

By Tim Chermak Christians are insane. I’ll get back to that in a second. For now, allow me to give you some background. I’ve been working on a political campaign for the past few months. During this time, I’ve encountered some pretty crazy situations, and even crazier people. However, perhaps the most astonishing realization I … Continue reading The (Christian) Political Asylum

By Jeff Goins, Editor What is hipster Christianity? Hipster Christianity is, in short, the fusion of hipster culture-independent, alternative, anti-mainstream, fashionable-with Christianity. It’s a world of mostly twentysomething Christian evangelicals who grew up on CCM and hysteria about being in the “end times,” but now care more about things like social justice, creation care, and … Continue reading The Life of a Christian Hipster: An Interview with Brett McCracken

By Wrecked for the Ordinary A couple weeks ago, Susan Isaacs shared on Wrecked about why Blue Like Jazz the movie is worth saving. Thanks for all your help in making it happen! $125,000 in 10 days was raised to turn the New York Times bestselling book into a feature film, all thanks to the … Continue reading How Blue Like Jazz Got Saved

By Jeff Goins, Editor Pete Wilson is the author of Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn’t Show Up the Way You Thought He Would? and pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. This is an interview we recently did with him about his new book (and some other stuff): WRECKED: Pete, … Continue reading Interview with Pete Wilson: Plan B

By Jeff Campbell The most dangerous kinds of lies are those that are the closest to the truth. Satan, for example, did not engineer the fall of humanity with outrageous fabrications. He manipulated Adam and Eve by putting this little spin on the way things actually are. He began in the truth, and he just … Continue reading The Most Dangerous Lies (As Told By Disney)